On Nov 14, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Tim Allen wrote:
> It's very well to say "make git mirror, push to Github, get new
> contributors", but I think there's a social impedance mismatch here
> that's going to cause problems, or at least make people wary because
> Twisted's Github project behaves weirdly and differently from other
> Github projects they're used to.
You're right, of course, but lots of other projects (Django comes to mind) have a Github presence without using Github or Git as their primary development tool. See here: <https://github.com/django>.
We already have <https://github.com/twisted>, it's just broken; despite the brokenness it has 14 watchers and 5 forks _anyway_, so clearly people want to use it. This is definitely worse than having a mirror that was updated and working correctly.
> I've not forgotten that I have/had Twisted commit access, and coming
> back to help on a more regular basis is definitely on my list of things
> to do, although it's pushed down a fair way at the moment. However,
> even "volunteer for Twisted" was right at the top of the list, I'd be
> a mug to sign up for such an open-ended responsibility. :)
Welcome to open source. It's all a never-ending thankless slog :-).
Really the most important thing here though is just to get the automatic mirroring initially set up, not the never-ending ambassadorial work. That way git users wouldn't _need_ elaborate instructions as to what to clone and how; if we just say "get twisted from github" and have that automatically updated it would be easier for everyone.
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